Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-30
EVERY MAN A HUSTLER.
Texas and lis Coming Metropolis as
Portray I'd By q Strangers
Yrenchant Pen.
KSusaz and Ts1as-A Country of Mag
uifcent Dislances-FOrt Worth's
Growing Glory.
ELLIS HOTEL,


seek Il kinder fortune in the great westY
nav be interested in the Lone Star State.
+ It has been much written about Of late.
! 1t viii bear to be much written about.
/ In the early seventies, Kansas was tried
/ bv fire, ana stood the test. The fates
/ sgrt TO that magnificent domain in 1871
( al unparalleled drOuth and with 1t
| grasshUppers IN numbers suTpassiOg the
/ sands f the sea-a double curse. In
1875 The grasshoppers returned and
: threatened to devOur the little that seemed
! to be LETT. Kansas SET mourning IN sack
cIOtn and ashes, her hopes blasted, her
people bankrupt-it was q beautiful
J flower withered in the bud. What
change from the Kansas OF '76 TO the
I Kansas of '86! II the short space OF ten
years she has stepped close up 10 the
/ foremost rank of states. She has dem
onstrated her superiority as IN aSricul-
tural state, and in 1886 established more
towns and cities and built more railroads
| than any other state in the Union. Land
is worth almost as much as in the less
productive east. St John rules the
Ha er nymphs of prohibition, Ingalls,
lpresides over the United States Senate,
3aud the beginning of the industrial and
intellectual progress OF Kansas has only
I begun.
What is Texas? 1t is state which
believe is destined 10 a development in
the immediate future as remarkable as
that Of Kansas know of 10 higher
compliment than this. The drouth Of
which so much has been heard IN the
east has been severe in certain portions
of the state; but has left in its wake 1T
tie restitution as compared with that
following the drouth in Kansas. The
most serious effects in the eastern and
northern portions of the state are indi-
rect, resulting from diminished trade
from the west. When the magnitude OF
this largest state in the Union is consjd-
cred, there is nothing especially marvellous
about the recent drOuth IN some twelve
or fifteen counties.
Is is as far from Dallas county TO Cam
erCn county as from 81. Louis TO Wash
ingtOD, D. c.; as far from FL PaSO TO Tex
arkana as from PittsbUTg to ST. Louis
| over these great distances it is not at all
remarkable that climate and amount of
rainfall respectively vary, as it does be
tween Washington, PlttsbuJg and St.
Louis. Aud yet in the east few remem-
Der beSe facts. We hear OF q drouth in
Texas, and think OF it about as we would
Of "a dry time" in Rhode I5land-We
think it visits the whole state. We make
the same mistake the EngIishman did
when h9 called on the BOstonian visiting
in London to ask him about another En-
ghsnman who had removed to America
and located in Washington territory. He
supposed that Sin a settlement like the
United States the people all knew one an
other" Notwithstanding the sirOuth in
1886, the value Of the purely agricultural
products of Texas in that year exceeded
| ST., 200, 900.
No other state has natural soil more
productive, no other state has a greater
variety of products. The same soil pro-
Iduces wonderful crops, of wheat, oats,
Irye, corn and barley, as well as cotton,
isugar-Cane and semi-trOplCal fruits
That it will long remain unsettled and
undevelOped, no one who has seen its
beautiful 'black Waxy'' and its won
derfuI "mahogany loam'' will believe.
There ere in Texas millions of acres of
soil as good as any in the world. 1t can
be bought now at prices merely nomi7
nal, st from s. to So per acre. Already
a great tide of emigration is flowing into
the northwestern part of the state, known
from Kansas. Many Of them are men
who survived the fearful years 1874 and
1875 in Kansas, and were made independ-
ent by the rise in the value of lands.
They have sold out to eastern settlers,
and, expecting history to repeat
Itself, have ra-invested in Texas.
They arc not likely to be disap-
pointed. During TIE past month rain
las fallen quite extensively. The fall
wheat is coming up ana covering the
great fields with its dark green mantle.
The ground is being plowed and the san
guine farmer is putting n mis- corn conf
dent Of an abundant harvest, Railroads
are being constructed in many parts of
the state as rapidly as men snd money
can do it. Up TO the present time Jay
Gould has monOpoiiZed the traffic of this
territory. In a few months the AtChisOn,
Topeka and Santa Fe and the Rock Is
la1d will be in position to dispute it with
him.
Notwithstanding the depression conse-
quens upon the drouth, there has been
no general fall in the price of lands.
With the exception OF the cattle interests
the stability Of values has been sustain
gfed, and now, as disturbing and depress-
ing Influences are disappearing, values,
particularly in land, promise tC rapidly
advance. Texas is now sweat meat for
the land Spectator. The advance guard
is already ON the ground, and the stagna-
ton prevailing IN real estate circles
durins the past year or two is giving
place to considerable activity. Specula-
ton is at present confined to town prop
erty in the numerous brisk cities in the
eastern part of the state; but it will soon
spread throughout the country should ia
vOrable crop prospects continue. II one
could foresee which of the cOmpe ting
cities was to be the future great distribnz
ting point in Texas, few hundred dollafs
properly placed would make him rich.
The people Of Fort Worth believe her star
promises soon to be the Alpha, and 1t
certainly has great railroad facilities, and
its people possess wonderful energy and
enterprise. Its GROWING glory as place
of residence is in its water supply. The
city has about 200 artesian wells flowing
clear, soft water. Ten years ago it had a
population of about 1900; to-day they